Projects in genres: Music

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In this comedy retro infomercial, Slugabed is selling his "Slugabed's Turbo Juicer 4000". This juicer and it's mini factory-like inner workings will transform your crushed audio-tapes through a stop-frame animated process into the best juice you've ever dreamed of. Buy it!

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After failing to talk to the pretty volunteer at a fundraiser for a disused swimming pool, a young man overcompensates by starting off an awkward chain reaction of events to catch her eye and save the day.

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A documentary that follows LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy over a 48-hour period, from the day of their final gig at Madison Square Garden to the morning after the show.

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Exploring the Balkan music scene in Berlin, London and Paris.

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Rachel and Chloe are done with being innocent 14-year-olds. They head into town on a secret night out, dressed way beyond their years and oozing a sexuality they barely own. There, they find themselves pushed to extremes and the boundaries between innocent play and dangerous seduction start to blur.

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We are all products of our environment. Some environments are just harder to survive in.
Welcome to London, 2012. Home of the Olympic Games. Behind the veil of newly injected prosperity lies a community that's impossible to enter and even harder to escape.
After 15 years in prison ex-dealer Kirby wants three simple things; to take back his turf, to get laid and to take revenge on the gangsters who have disrespected him. But, a humiliating run-in with his former protégé sparks a chain of violence, vengeance and lethal reprisals that ripple through the community of drug dealers, pimps and innocents all swept up into the cycle of violence and deception.
Then there's Aaron: street-wise yet vulnerable, just trying to get by and do the right thing while his ruthless friend, Ed, will stop at nothing to reclaim a mobile phone leading to deadly consequences.

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Julien Temple's epic time-travelling voyage to the heart of his hometown. From musicians, writers and artists to dangerous thinkers, political radicals and above all ordinary people, this is the story of London's immigrants, its bohemians and how together they changed the city forever. Reaching back to the dawn of film in London at the start of the 20th century, the story unfolds in film archive, voices of Londoners past and present and the flow of popular music across the century; a stream of urban consciousness, like the river which flows through its heart. It ends as London prepares to welcome the world to the 2012 Olympics.

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A musician is discovered In a Detroit bar in the late 60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. They record an album which they believe is going to secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. In fact, the album bombs and the singer disappears into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording finds its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it becomes a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation leads them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Sixto Rodriguez. This is a film about hope, inspiration and the power of music.

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A unique comedy in which three idiots attempt to stage an epic. The Bubonic Play is the story of a maid, her master and a wandering minstrel caught in a tragic love triangle. It follows their journey across the plague-ravaged English Countryside in search of a cure for the disease. Lord George of Ponsonby is in love with his young maid Mathilde. She discovers a handsome minstrel bathing in the river and they run off together. Enraged, George vows revenge and sets off to intercept them. The story survives all assaults from the actors' need to be the audience's favourite. Love, songs, magical potions, deception, knife-fights, stampeding rats, Punch and Judy all feature before the play's dramatic climax. They die. All of them. One by one.

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In a deep forest, the statue of Venus stands alone. The winter snows end and the ice melts into the river. As the spring arrives, David and Eros, are installed besides her. Venus instantly falls in love with David. While dreaming Venus becomes human and realizes David also loves her. Eros' jealousy alters the love triangle dramatically into a tragedy.

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Reflecting on colour, the anthropology of noise, our perception of listening, Vivarta alludes to early optical film experiments with sound and visuals, sometimes called 'colour music' and plays with the experience of a persistence of vision.

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The documentary About a Band features Edinburgh's Columcille Ceilidh Band which includes musicians with learning disabilities.

The filmmakers follow the band playing at a variety of venues in Scotland as well as at workshops for people with learning disabilities. Interviews with the band members show their working relationship and the creative tensions that exist within any band.

The joyous sounds of the ceilidh music are interwoven with these personal tales, giving a true sense of just how important the band is in their lives.The film includes an interview with Ian McCalman of Scotland's top folk band McCalmans and a sequence in which distinguished Scottish folk musician and composer Phil Cunningham plays with the band at a rehearsal.